"script" program

2005-01-26 Thread jurgen . defurne
Hello, I know this question has only been recently on this list, but I can't seem to find the answer anymore, and the cygwin mail archive is dead slow this morning, so here I go : In which package is the 'script' utility located, or is it a package which is outside the standard Cygwin repository

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Jon A. Lambert wrote: > Peter A. Castro wrote: > > > > might find it useful or interesting. Unfortinately, it only goes > > back to April of 2002, though I actually have package versions going > > back further, but not the setup.ini to go with them. > > You didn't mention the

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-26 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:05 PM 1/26/2005, you wrote: >Peter A. Castro wrote: >> >>might find it useful or interesting. Unfortinately, it only goes >>back to April of 2002, though I actually have package versions going >>back further, but not the setup.ini to go with them. > >You didn't mention the b20/20.1 release.

Help Needed!!!

2005-01-26 Thread Amit dattatraya Bhandar
Hello, I am running cygwin on a Win2k machine. I have a C program that I am compiling using gcc. Upon execution from the prompt, the program just exits without any output. When I run gdb on the executable,I set the first breakpoint at main() and run the program. However, the program segfaults be

Re: Help! Need B.20.1 src

2005-01-26 Thread John Mellor
On Sun, 2005-23-01 at 16:03 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 23 09:28, John Mellor wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-22-01 at 20:22 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:17:44PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > >I don't know if the ancient Bxx series was LGPL, but the curr

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > Fixed. By the way, does anyone know exactly what Devel packages are required > to build Cygwin? I used to just think "install everything" but now > there's a lot of > new X or GNOME related stuff. I know I've got more than I need > installed, but I'm > thinking tha

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-26 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Peter A. Castro wrote: might find it useful or interesting. Unfortinately, it only goes back to April of 2002, though I actually have package versions going back further, but not the setup.ini to go with them. You didn't mention the b20/20.1 release. If you and anyone doesn't have it and wants i

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:36:50 -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:29:29 +0100, David Dindorp wrote: > > And the link in the FAQ is wrong: > > > > "How can I debug cygwin" (entry 105) says: > > > > "To build a debugging version of the Cygwin DLL, > > you will need to follow

RE: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Larry Hall wrote: > At 02:10 PM 1/26/2005, you wrote: > >On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Larry Hall wrote: > > > >> of variations and options available that were not there heretofore. > >> This is the reason I directed Neven back to Peter's site. Clearly, > >> though, if Neven and other

Re: startxwin.bat failing

2005-01-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Jon wrote: > I'm trying to run startxwin.bat on a Windows XP system. When I do, the > Cygwin/X Server starts however when the terminal window comes up, I get the > two following error messages: > > xterm: Can't execvp /usr/bin/bash: No such file or directory > xterm: Could not exec /bin/sh: No su

startxwin.bat failing

2005-01-26 Thread Jon
Hi: I'm trying to run startxwin.bat on a Windows XP system. When I do, the Cygwin/X Server starts however when the terminal window comes up, I get the two following error messages: xterm: Can't execvp /usr/bin/bash: No such file or directory xterm: Could not exec /bin/sh: No such file or direct

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:29:29 +0100, David Dindorp wrote: > How about adding a line in the FAQ to the "how to build cygwin" (104) > entry > stating that the "configure ; make" mentioned does produce a Cygwin with > all > debugging symbols? > > And the link in the FAQ is wrong: > > "How can I debug

Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

2005-01-26 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
> On Jan 25 09:08, Steven Read wrote: > > Really I did read the FAQ. By the way > > could I persuade you to release the API in PDF format?) You can easily create your own PDF from the DocBook XML files (available in CVS or the cygwin-doc src package) on linux with a command like: xmlto pdf cygw

RE: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-26 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:10 PM 1/26/2005, you wrote: >On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Larry Hall wrote: > >> of variations and options available that were not there heretofore. >> This is the reason I directed Neven back to Peter's site. Clearly, >> though, if Neven and others that use the "cygwin time machine" can get >> what

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:25:45PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: >On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>However, because I'm a masochist, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be a >>good idea to advertise this as "cygwin news" on the front page of >>http://cygwin.com/. > >Gosh, Chris, I'm flatte

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-26 Thread Neven Luetic
> I see from later email that you are having problems removing some files > (specifically symlinks). I'd check who actually owns those files, using > the Windows Explorer, (right-click on file) Properties->Security tab. > See who owns it. You might need to take ownership of the file, or login > a

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:10:49AM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: > >On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Larry Hall wrote: > >>Obviously, those who disagree with me are still free to answer the > >>inevitable posts that we'll get here about the "cygwin time machine

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:58:18PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > >Actually, I think this is a neat idea. I tried to do something like it > >for personal use about 18 months ago -- I wanted a one-time snapshot of > >the cygwin-1.3.x baseline just p

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:10:49AM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: >On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Larry Hall wrote: >>Obviously, those who disagree with me are still free to answer the >>inevitable posts that we'll get here about the "cygwin time machine" >>anyway. With any luck, those posts will be few and

RE: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Larry Hall wrote: > At 01:34 PM 1/25/2005, Dave Korn wrote: > > >> This subject is really off-topic for this list. The "cygwin > >> time machine" is not a service supported by this list. > > > > Larry, you're being too harsh there! The "how to uninstall" procedure is > >sta

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Neven Luetic wrote: > Hello, Greetings Neven, > after a (stupid) attempt to install an older version of cygwin over my > current installation (using the "cygwin time machine" mentioned some > days ago) I just wanted to throw it away and start anew, but the cygwin > directory

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Charles Wilson wrote: > Actually, I think this is a neat idea. I tried to do something like it > for personal use about 18 months ago -- I wanted a one-time snapshot of > the cygwin-1.3.x baseline just prior to the 1.5.x transition. > > But I waited too long (e.g. after packa

Re: Installer question

2005-01-26 Thread Warren Young
Max Bowsher wrote: Unfortunately, no. I seem to recall that the setup hint file mechanism allows you to set an older version to be the current, while still allowing the newer version to be downloaded on request. If the package is broken for lots of people, perhaps findutils' maintainer should d

Re: Installer question

2005-01-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Chuck wrote: Is there a way to tell the installer never to update findutils? The current version of that package is still broken and every time I update other packages, it installs the newer findutils by default. I want it to ignore findutils while still updating other packages. Unfortunately, no.

Installer question

2005-01-26 Thread Chuck
Is there a way to tell the installer never to update findutils? The current version of that package is still broken and every time I update other packages, it installs the newer findutils by default. I want it to ignore findutils while still updating other packages. TIA -- To reply by email rem

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:58:18PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Actually, I think this is a neat idea. I tried to do something like it >for personal use about 18 months ago -- I wanted a one-time snapshot of >the cygwin-1.3.x baseline just prior to the 1.5.x transition. > >But I waited too long

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin - Solved

2005-01-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Neven Luetic wrote: > > after a (stupid) attempt to install an older version of cygwin over my > > current installation (using the "cygwin time machine" mentioned some > > days ago) I just wanted to throw it away and start anew, but the cygwin > > directory is undeletable. > >

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread David Dindorp
Ack! Apologies for the formatting. The company I'm employed at uses Outlook (thereby MS-WORD) for e-mail. Here's what I wanted to say: The FAQ entry 105 links to entry 102 under "how to compile". Shouldn't this point to 104 instead? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread David Dindorp
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> Umm, that was my bad. The thing is, "--enable-debugging" really produces >> a developer debug version, with extra tracing, etc. If all you want is a >> version of DLL with all the symbols (i.e., unstripped), the regular build >> produces that as well. Cristopher Fayl

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin - Solved

2005-01-26 Thread Neven Luetic
> after a (stupid) attempt to install an older version of cygwin over my > current installation (using the "cygwin time machine" mentioned some > days ago) I just wanted to throw it away and start anew, but the cygwin > directory is undeletable. > > This is due to some symbolic links from version